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Microtus abbreviatus Miller 1899
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Description
Microtus abbreviatus Miller, 1899. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 13: 13.
TYPE LOCALITY: USA, Alaska, Bering Sea, Hall Island.
DISTRIBUTION: Hall and St. Matthew Islands, Bering Sea (Alaska, USA).
SYNONYMS: fisheri.
COMMENTS: An insular relative of M. miurus of the Alaskan mainland, generally retained as a species (Fedyk, 1970; Rausch and Rausch, 1968). Karyotype reported by Rausch and Rausch (1968) and chromosomal affinities within subgenus Stenocranius discussed by Fedyk (1970). Also see accounts of M. gregalis and M. miurus.
Notes
Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 518, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFE9FFD6FFF6FFBBFFF30B06FF93FFF3 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muridae
- Genus
- Microtus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rodentia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Miller
- Species
- abbreviatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microtus abbreviatus Miller, 1899 sec. Musser & Carleton, 1993
References
- Fedyk, S. 1970. Chromosomes of Microtus (Stenocranius) gregalis major (Ognev, 1923) and phylogenetic connections between sub-arctic representatives of the genus Microtus Schrank, 1798. Acta Theriologica, 15: 143 - 152.
- Rausch, R. L., and V. R. Rausch. 1968. On the biology and systematic position of Microtus abbreviatus Miller, a vole endemic to the St. Matthew Islands, Bering Sea. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 33: 65 - 99.